Mitchell v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 445 · 1941
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2005
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Clatworthy v. Ferguson · Whiteside v. Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. · Whiteside v. Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. · American Agency & Investment Co. v. Gregg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is the law in Colorado that a contract which constitutes a promise to pay one for services rendered out of a fund created in whole or in part by the efforts of the promisee creates a lien on the fund when it comes into existence, and that equity will enforce such a lien."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mitchell's compensation was contingent and was payable only out of the fund which he was to assist in bringing into existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.